Reporting suicide and mental ill-health: A Mindframe resource for media professionals

The media play an important role in shaping social attitudes and perceptions of suicide.

For more than two decades Mindframe has worked collaboratively to support media and communications professionals to safely and accurately report on suicide to the Australian public.

Together media professionals, peak media bodies, suicide prevention and mental health organisations, consumer networks and Mindframe’s advisory groups, which developed the national Mindframe guidelines for the discussion, reporting and publication of content, which references suicide and self-harm.